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		28 time world gurning champion dead at 67. With helpful pic of what gurning is (newsandstar.co.uk)		37
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farkingismybusiness

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2015-04-03 3:00:46 AM

*pours out a little bitter beer*

Ambivalence

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2015-04-03 4:45:52 AM

Did her face ever stick like that?

Demetrius

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2015-04-03 6:48:17 AM

Pointy Tail of Satan

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2015-04-03 6:50:46 AM

Spanky McStupid

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2015-04-03 7:26:08 AM

So ....... Popeye impressions?

Bedstead Polisher

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2015-04-03 7:32:03 AM

I still don't know what it is. Is it sticking your jaw out and lifting your bottom lip to your nose? It looks like you need to be toothless for that.
Or is it singing in that position? TFA said she had a signature song.

freakingmoron

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2015-04-03 7:42:23 AM

FTA "And to mark her legacy, the Crab Fair committee will discuss ways to remember her..."

How about a massive orgy. Everybody churning and gurning. "Funny Face" by Donna Fargo playing. And everyone gets crabs. 'Cause that's the fair.

mutterfark

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2015-04-03 7:42:36 AM

Bedstead Polisher: I still don't know what it is. Is it sticking your jaw out and lifting your bottom lip to your nose? It looks like you need to be toothless for that.
Or is it singing in that position? TFA said she had a signature song.

Gurning used to be an honored profession in the watch making trade. They stood around all day making faces.

/sorry, there's nothing I like more than a good joke ;p

abhorrent1

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2015-04-03 7:45:00 AM

So that's a thing huh?

phamwaa

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2015-04-03 7:49:09 AM

Grrrr. It's a Fark cached image that won't resolve to an image here.

But it's the quintessential gurn.

http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/R/Rd/fark_RdvHz38G6bqhW-lllW_K9 Zr Uydc.jpg?t=0u8UJ8xAASc3EGskkxmSOw&f=1428292800

Louisiana_Sitar_Club

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2015-04-03 7:53:16 AM

abhorrent1: So that's a thing huh?

Apparently so much so that "making a face" is insufficient. It needs a whole new word.

FrancoFile

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2015-04-03 7:56:51 AM

Louisiana_Sitar_Club: abhorrent1: So that's a thing huh?

Apparently so much so that "making a face" is insufficient. It needs a whole new word.

It's England. Making up words is second only to standing around with a clipboard counting things in popularity of hobbies.

/motorized rollinghams

LonMead

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2015-04-03 8:08:55 AM

Skip to 1:18 for some musical gurning. Or just listen to the song, 'cause it kicks ass.

Bob Down

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2015-04-03 8:10:06 AM

Making up words. As opposed to words spontaneously creating themselves.

Cerebral Ballsy

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2015-04-03 8:26:50 AM

I read the article. I looked at the picture. Subby is a lying whore; I still have no idea what gurning is. Also; my phone's autocorrect tells me that's not even a word.

mudpants

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2015-04-03 8:44:56 AM

GURN is dead, long live GURN !!

TheDirtyNacho

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2015-04-03 8:48:19 AM

Time to put the coxswheat on the mollydoodle, no time to waste lads

mudpants

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2015-04-03 8:52:25 AM

OLYMPIC GURNING

GURNING DOWN THE HOUSE

slorge

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2015-04-03 8:56:37 AM

Gurn Blanston anyone?

Monkey

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2015-04-03 9:35:52 AM

slorge: Gurn Blanston anyone?
[upload.wikimedia.org image 200x194]

I thought it was Blanstein...checks....nope, Blanston. Huh. Wonder how many more of my childhood memories are false.

callmeox

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2015-04-03 9:39:07 AM

Came for the Gurn Blanston, left satisfied.

iron de havilland

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2015-04-03 9:56:52 AM

phamwaa: Grrrr. It's a Fark cached image that won't resolve to an image here.

But it's the quintessential gurn.

http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/R/Rd/fark_RdvHz38G6bqhW-lllW_K9 Zr Uydc.jpg?t=0u8UJ8xAASc3EGskkxmSOw&f=1428292800

It would have worked if you had inlined it.

Fark lets Fark into it's cached images...

You can also use the scratch thread to see what a Fark cached image is:

69

I had bookmarked a cached image and, of course, if you try and load it, you get a 403. So I posted it there, and hey presto, I could see what it was.

/It was this:

thegoldphish

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2015-04-03 9:57:06 AM

I googled gurning and what I saw looked like a fark meet up.

Strange Mojo

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2015-04-03 10:00:37 AM

The flame that we kindled hasn't dwindled at all.
It just keeps gurning, gurning, gurning; it won't cool off.

patrick767

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2015-04-03 10:15:39 AM

Making funny faces is called gurning. They have competitions. Huh.

dbrunker

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2015-04-03 10:20:06 AM

I think someone feels left out.

Candy Colored Clown

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2015-04-03 11:22:46 AM

Permanent Gurning:

Clemkadidlefark

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2015-04-03 11:59:09 AM

What kind of people gurn?

Bedstead Polisher

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2015-04-03 12:15:15 PM

So now that I know what gurning is, I think I could probably win a competition as long as there's a camera present. I swear, I could look perfectly normal then as soon as the photo is taken, my eyes close and my mouth distorts.

Candy Colored Clown

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2015-04-03 12:20:38 PM

Bedstead Polisher: So now that I know what gurning is, I think I could probably win a competition as long as there's a camera present. I swear, I could look perfectly normal then as soon as the photo is taken, my eyes close and my mouth distorts.

trappedspirit

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2015-04-03 12:33:03 PM

You're playing so cool
Obeying every rule
Deep way down in your heart
You're gurning yearning for some
Somebody to tell you
That life ain't passing you by
I'm trying to tell you
It will if you don't even try

bentley57

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2015-04-03 12:40:19 PM

Everyday faces of the folks in backwoods Appalachia, amiright?

Larva Lump

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2015-04-03 12:52:32 PM

I belm in your general direction.

Bedstead Polisher

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2015-04-03 12:53:12 PM

Candy Colored Clown: Bedstead Polisher: So now that I know what gurning is, I think I could probably win a competition as long as there's a camera present. I swear, I could look perfectly normal then as soon as the photo is taken, my eyes close and my mouth distorts.

[static.fjcdn.com image 540x562]

Nailed it.

washington-babylon

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2015-04-03 2:07:01 PM

mudpants:
GURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
[swns.com image 450x400]

That's more of a "IT GURNS WHEN I PEE!" face.

Contrabulous Flabtraption

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2015-04-03 5:23:48 PM

I can read all the words in that article but I have no idea what information they are trying to convey.

Hyperbole and Minutia

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2015-04-03 6:16:21 PM

Cerebral Ballsy: I read the article. I looked at the picture. Subby is a lying whore; I still have no idea what gurning is. Also; my phone's autocorrect tells me that's not even a word.

From Wikipedia's article on gurning:

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